Midweek Roundup: Bus McBusBus

ST's monthly extended overnight maintenance program heads to the Eastside next week: Link 2 Line service between Bel-Red and Downtown Redmond will be replaced by shuttles after 10pm each evening on April 14-17.

Local Transit:

• Riders of the Rapidride G rejoice: SDOT has finished fixing construction errors requiring steel plates at the Terry, Boylston, and 12th Ave stations (the Seattle Times, $).
• New transit challenge: a local couple rode all 10 WA State Ferries routes in one day (The Seattle Times, $).
• A pilot program will bring Sunday service to the Vashon Water Taxi this summer, expanding sailings to 7 days a week from April 12 through early fall" (Captain's Blog).
• Sound Transit is gauging public priorities for its efforts to triage ST3's costs with a few questions (ST News Release). The short survey is open for an unstated period.
• Help name one of Community Transit's original buses (CT News). Can you top Bus McBusBus"?
• WSDOT should include much more higher-speed rail in its upcoming rail plan update (Op-Ed, The Urbanist).

More headlines below.

Other local items:

• King County Council deadlocks" on how much of a cut, if any, cities should get of a potential 1% sales tax for road maintenance (The Urbanist).
• Recently in Columbia City, SDOT wanted to expand paid parking zones and raise prices; community pushback showed the limitations of demand-based parking policy (City Hikes).
• Seattle city planners want to hear how they can improve the U-District Regional Center (Seattle.gov). Survey open until May 4, 2026.
• The Ave between 42nd and 43rd will go car-free for three Saturdays this summer to test traffic impacts of potential pedestrianization of University Way (The Urbanist).
• A photo-video exploration of Seattle's liminal spaces (The Stranger).

Further afield:

• Vancouver's bus grid thickens as TransLink plans to increase frequencies (Human Transit)
• With office rents cratering, some companies in Downtown LA are cutting costs by buying their office buildings (The Los Angeles Times).
• As gas prices increase due to geopolitical instability, electric mass transit becomes even more worthwhile (Next Metro).
• How can Canada build rail transit so cheaply, and what can the USA learn? (McGill Intl. Review)

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